Seriously good luck to you mate. Perhaps you should try Latin it will help take your mind of things and, if you get to a fair level, will make you rise above it. Here's the link to the best Latin beginner's book ever to get you started if you so wish: http://www.textkit.com/learn/ID/108/author_id/13/. You can work through it at your own pace, it has a simple lay out: you read it, understand and learn the lesson's principles, learn also the vocabulary to which you are directed (it's all in the book) then do the exercises. Bona in tibi futura sit fortuna